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When Szu Yu Chen, a graphics reporter at The Washington Post, was covering this year’s Grammy Awards, she couldn’t help but notice how many nominated…
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Deep Reads: An elite rock climber lost his vision, then found a way to climb blind
Jesse Dufton was born with a condition in which the light-sensing cells of his retina gradually deteriorated. This did not stop him from climbing wit…
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The Campaign Moment: Harris’s big interview
“Post Reports” co-host Elahe Izadi and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with White House reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb about Harris and Walz’s …
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The promise and peril of ketamine
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, there has been a big uptick in the use of the powerful anesthetic ketamine to treat anxiety and depressi…
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The Trump campaign, upended
This is not the presidential race that former president Donald Trump prepared for. Today, we unpack the state of the Trump campaign, its struggles to…
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How NASA plans to rescue two astronauts stuck in space
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore were supposed to be on the International Space Station for eight days. But as the Boeing St…
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The poison in school water fountains
When the state of New York became the first in the nation to require public schools to test their drinking water for lead in 2016, students learned t…
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The Campaign Moment: Harris makes history
Elahe Izadi, co-host of “Post Reports,” and senior political reporter Aaron Blake sit down with White House reporter Cleve Wootson at the Democratic …
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The strategy behind Ukraine’s move into Russia
As Ukraine continues to lose ground to Russia in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky has quietly moved Ukrainian forces into Russi…
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The student revolution that toppled a government
On Aug. 5, following weeks of student protests and police violence that left hundreds dead, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fle…
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